Who Should Be Ashamed, Mr Lee Hsien Loong?

The protest is a disgrace. But who caused it? It’s you Mr Lee. You lowered the standard Singaporeans and how they feel in Singapore.

As for the world? The world empathises with the people of Singapore you ignorant fool. I’m sure you don’t only read ST yes?

I welcome foreigners. I know we need foreigners. I even do things like apologise on behalf on Singaporeans on Jollibee Singapore‘s facebook page. Heck, I even agree with some of your reasons for bringing them in.

..And yet the truth is out there for everyone to see; In a span of only a few years, 40% of Singapore are now Foreigners. Practically HALF of the country has been taken over. If you have a family of 6 and you suddenly have 4 more strangers in your home, permanently, as members of the house, even if you’re super welcoming, open minded, etc, you’ll feel like your family’s space has been violated.

Lee Hsien Loong, you should be ashamed of yourself. You should be ashamed of staying ignorant, only looking at numbers and not understanding what they represent. You should be ashamed of yourself of not listening and understanding your people. You should be ashamed of calling those who feel violated and voicing their frustrations trolls.

You should be ashamed of yourself for making the people of Singapore feel like they’re no longer at home.

Your predecessors were hard, even controversial, when it comes to policies. Many Singaporeans complained and whined, but ultimately accepted because many could see that it was really bitter medicine. You on the other hand, Lee Hsien Long, have misdiagnosed a problem and refuse to take responsibility of your actions.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

All the previous prime ministers will be remembered as flawed individuals who tried their best. You will be remembered as the stubborn fool who crushed the heart and soul of Singaporeans.

And you know what’s the best part? You couldn’t even pull this off properly. You expected the foreigners to come and and sleep on the streets. You expected them to walk around and not take public transport. You didn’t apply common sense to your numbers (from your supposedly brilliant mathematical background.. good math + bad application = ? ).

Even now, the questions are at the back of the people’s minds. What about the roads? They are already jammed up as it is. What’s the point of having more buses when the roads can’t take them? What about the MRT? Yes, more trains, but on the same tracks? The trains are already slowing down, so we’ll have more trains but it will become the MST (Mass Slow Transport)? Why is everything so expensive in Singapore? Why aren’t our salaries rising (you’re selling skilled labour at discount prices) ? What about our jobs?

Oh wait. I forgot. Your generation of ministers can’t seem to get over yourselves and are not familiar with life. You don’t know that when you do a good job, people won’t shower you with flowers. You don’t know that if you do something wrong, people will be critical.

So let’s make this positive then.

Well done for standing on the successes your predecessors and assuming it was a job well done on your part. Well done for totally screwing up Singapore’s infrastructure.

Well done, for being the first PAP regime to make all Singaporeans feel alienated in their own country.

Let’s give give Mr Lee Hsien Long and his entourage a round of applause people.

* clap * clap *

Food for thought – We have celebrated festivals of other countries before. I’m even sure many have celebrated foreign national days together as well. But why are Singaporeans rallying against this? This is a very Un-Singaporean behaviour. Why do this? Why now? And why did this happen on your watch, dear Prime Minister?

Coincidence?

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Not conclusive of course, but just to emphasize my point on your deliberate ignorance and the world empathizing with Singaporeans… (if you haven’t noticed, deleting this kinda works against your own rhetoric. Shameful. It’s always amusing to see the world’s highest paid politicians making amateurish mistakes like this)

7 comments

While I quite agree with what you said about the number of foreigners increasing in Singapore, I think that what Lee Hsien Long said in his post is valid. Anyway, you can’t be sure that the comment wasn’t deleted by the person who posted it himself.
Fine, perhaps you could say that they should have used a more private location for their event but I see nothing wrong with them wanting to celebrate their independence day in Singapore. The Singapore Societies overseas host national day celebrations every year and the locals don’t really complain about it (the only one I’ve heard of is the incident at Singapore Day Sydney last year). As an international student, it’s not possible for me to make it back to Singapore at all because the school obviously doesn’t give us a holiday to celebrate our own country’s national day which of course is a given. Can you imagine the amount I’d have to spend on plane tickets? Just because Mr Garlock never got to celebrate US Independence Day in Singapore doesn’t mean that he couldn’t if he wanted to. His main point was that the Singaporean government should not be catering to “every [culture’s] back and need” but it’s not like the SG government organised this event for them in the first place. Someone at Ngee Ann City would have had to approve of them having their event there as well so I doubt they’re violating any rules. When I go to Ngee Ann City to shop, I’m not there for the events. I just walk by, take a look, think “Oh, they’ve got kids show on this time” or “Oh, there’s a food fair on now” and get on with life. Am I offended by the kids events because they aren’t catered for my age group? Of course not! If it’s a Korean food fair and I can’t be bothered with Korean culture? I let my friends who are interested in it know! There are so many ways to deal with this situation rationally and I don’t see why Singaporeans need to react with so much hate.

FTs are important yes, but they should not be competing with locals on jobs that are already in high demand. The government should make sure that FTs can only work in areas where there’s a shortage of local talent, and employers have to pay them the same rate as they pay locals + on top of levies (and FTs have to pay non-resident tax since they are taking advantage of our infrastructure and economy and they don’t have to contribute to Singapore’s defense by doing NS/reservice) nor have a long-term vested stake in our country; as it shouldn’t be attractive to hire FTs because of lower wage and not having to go for reservice.

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